what is the time period at season 1 of The Mandalorian
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With flashbacks that take place in other time periods, including around AOTC, immediately after ROTJ, and the time frame of Mandalorian season 1.
Next season will take place entirely in a flashback.
I am watching The Book of Boba Fett Episode 6, that person that dress like Luke Skywalker does not look like him as far as his face is concerned. It's his voice, but not his face.
P.S. is there any cartoon / animate Star Wars series that has Baby Yoda in it?
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Din_Grogu
as well, what does BBY means?
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Din_Grogu
as well, what does BBY means?
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It's neither. His face and voice are both synthetic.
BBY means Before the Battle of Yavin.
All of Grogu's appearances are listed at the bottom of the page you listed.
No. To date, Din Grogu has only appeared in live action in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
BBY means 'Before the Battle of Yavin' which essentially translates to before SW Episode IV. (The original SW)
well yeah, Mark Hamill is too old to play Luke for the period the show takes place.
So they took another actor, and used deepfake tech to try and put 1983 Mark Hamill's face on him.
Actually, I think the face is done with straight CGI like in Rogue One. If they'd used Deepfake tech it would actually be a lot better with more facial animation possible.
No, it's deepfake, they've talked about it in BTS stuff, they even hired a guy off youtube after he did a better job than they did for Mando Season 2.
Not entirely accurate. They're processed. Hamill was on set (and in costume) for all of it, and it's his vocal performance that forms the basis of the voice, before it's fed through a machine learning processor that's been trained on his voice circa 1985-ish (thanks to his stint working on audiobooks.) Same principle with the face & body double.
So it's not as if it's all just generated out of thin air without the original actor's involvement. Indeed this may be one of the most ethical implementations of this kind of technology I've yet seen. Indeed I get the feeling LF are treading very carefully.
So far as I understand, it's a hybrid technique. Their CG head replacement tech does most of the heavy lifting, while deepfake is used as a final polish to try and bridge the uncanny valley. So far it seems to work far better than either method can on their own.
I never said it was. But both face and voice are digital creations.
No, but that's the misconception people usually get when someone says "digital creation". Doesn't really convey what's actually happening.
I'm just clarifying to the sake of those that don't know how VFX works.
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Slightly over edited with the music but has some BTS details of the digital work, and Hamil's participation.
Precisely because it was a hybrid technique that used both performance tracked CG head replacement, and machine learning photo overlay (deepfake) to overcome each other's weaknesses. The Mando season 2 was just the former.
It's also partly why the "fixed" fan versions of those scenes looked as good as they did (yes, I know they hired him) precisely because the CG head worked as a much better foundation for the deepfake than even a close match double's head. ILM had already done the hard part for them. Turns out, the closer a match the subject is for the target, the easier time the learning algorithm has processing it all, and the smoother the transition. A similar principle applies to the de-aging process Marvel is so fond of, and why it's generally more successful and less prone to uncanny valley than full head replacement on a double.
Corridor Crew did a little video demonstrating this a few years back by deepfaking Will Smith's face onto . . . Will Smith. Not surprisingly; the results were far superior compared to doing it with literally anyone else.
Still, even the hybrid technique has it's technical limitations. Note for example how Luke was always under soft, diffuse lighting; never in direct sunlight or deep shadow, or even a strong keylight of any kind. That's something deepfake and similar processes really struggle with, so they have to be careful with how these scenes are staged. The bamboo forest wasn't just a neat aesthetic choice, it was the result of a necessary technical consideration.
It's also partly why the "fixed" fan versions of those scenes looked as good as they did (yes, I know they hired him) precisely because the CG head worked as a much better foundation for the deepfake than even a close match double's head. ILM had already done the hard part for them. Turns out, the closer a match the subject is for the target, the easier time the learning algorithm has processing it all, and the smoother the transition. A similar principle applies to the de-aging process Marvel is so fond of, and why it's generally more successful and less prone to uncanny valley than full head replacement on a double.
Corridor Crew did a little video demonstrating this a few years back by deepfaking Will Smith's face onto . . . Will Smith. Not surprisingly; the results were far superior compared to doing it with literally anyone else.
Still, even the hybrid technique has it's technical limitations. Note for example how Luke was always under soft, diffuse lighting; never in direct sunlight or deep shadow, or even a strong keylight of any kind. That's something deepfake and similar processes really struggle with, so they have to be careful with how these scenes are staged. The bamboo forest wasn't just a neat aesthetic choice, it was the result of a necessary technical consideration.
